Performance
Kenneth Branagh's Stab at the Bloody Business of Macbeth
Thunder and rain hurtle over the violent, staged sorrow of this new spectacle of Macbeth, installed heath and all in the gaping drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory.
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Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the relationship of the superrich and art, art exhibitions in malls, the seven deadly digital sins, rise of Russian propaganda, queering Black Metal, what the 9/11 Museum is missing, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Rights
Two-hundred twenty-five years ago today, James Madison proposed twelve amendments to the United States constitution. Three and a half months later, ten of the twelve were ratified, and have since become known as the Bill of Rights.
Art
Single Point Perspective: An Arcadian Moment in the Heart of New York’s Lower East Side
For anyone interested in poetry (not the same as verse); underknown art and artists; the artists and poets of the New York School after the death of Franz Kline and Frank O’Hara; collaboration; collage; a do-it-yourself spirit; the Lower East Side (particularly from the late 1960s until the late ‘80
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Mark Greenwold
I was surprised when Mark Greenwold gave me his address, because it was, like my own apartment, in “upstate Manhattan,” a far remove from the center of the art world.
In Brief
Curator Admits Manifesta Art Biennial in Russia Is in Trouble
The chief curator of Manifesta, the roving European Biennial of Contemporary Art, told Deutsche Welle that the biennial has hit an "impasse: nothing’s happening."
Art
Memories Are Made of This: Tom Duncan’s Constructed Past
If the so-called “greatest generation,” those that fought in World War II, have mostly passed on, their children, the pre-boomers born just before and during that conflict are still around.
Art
New Subway Art Installation Brings the Home into the Commute
Three stations on the M subway line in Ridgewood, Queens now have permanent art installations that bring moments of home into the commute.
News
Senegalese Government Shuts Down Exhibitions Addressing Queer Issues
The government of Senegal has ordered the closure or cancelation of all exhibitions dealing with queer issues in the 2014 edition of Dak'Art, the 11th Biennale of Contemporary African Art, The Art Newspaper reported.
News
Two More Artists, Chto Delat and US Social Forum, Withdraw from Creative Time Exhibition
Two more artists have joined Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency in withdrawing from the traveling iteration of Creative Time's Living as Form exhibition curated by Nato Thompson, Hyperallergic has learned.
Art
An Artist Grows a Seed in the Palm of His Hand
CHICAGO — Joshua Kent stands barefoot, his palm outstretched and relaxed, in it a mid-size rose quartz crystal nuzzled against a loose pod of soil.
In Brief
Performance Artist Does the Impossible, Shows Up Courbet's "Origin of the World"
A twentysomething woman sits down in front of Gustave Courbet's "Origin of the World" (1866), pulls up her dress, splays her legs, and shows her vulva, clitoris, and possibly part of her vagina to the visitors in the gallery.